Get More Value Out of Your TV Ads: Incorporate Search

In 2015, a 30 second Super Bowl TV ad cost 4.5 million dollars (Source: Syracuse).

What’s the ROI in that? Despite the exorbitant cost and lack of clear-cut metrics to measure the value of a prized Super Bowl ad spot, big brands continue to pay the high price every year.

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What Happened When I Flipped a WordPress Based Site from http to https

In mid-July of 2015, I decided to flip the Sugarrae.com site to https using SSL. In the last eighteen+ months, Google has been pushing hard to “make SSL happen.” They even said it might give you a bit of a rankings boost, no doubt knowing that tons of SEOs and business owners would begin flipping… Read More

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What Happened When I Flipped a WordPress Based Site from http to https

In mid-July of 2015, I decided to flip the Sugarrae.com site to https using SSL. In the last eighteen+ months, Google has been pushing hard to “make SSL happen.” They even said it might give you a bit of a rankings boost, no doubt knowing that tons of SEOs and business owners would begin flipping… Read More

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Outreach Tactics for Effective Link Building in 2016

cyrus tweetIt is true how “pure on-site work” can enormously affect any site’s ability to grow its traffic without any push from other popular online marketing tactics.

I’ve seen this work personally on some of the sites I’ve worked on in the past. And it still amazes me how it’s still effective.

However, the competition for web supremacy continues to get more brutal than it already is.

Creating great content and optimizing your site thoroughly for search can get you far. But in order to really compete, you need to do the more difficult stuff too – like building the right links.

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The Web Marketer’s Guide To Reddit

Trying to understand what makes content “work” on the Internet is a fascinating process. Why does a piece of content resonate with people, when another does not? So far, we’ve looked at an introduction to Content Marketing and we’ve looked at ideas that work in content: describing and visualising notions of scale, nostalgia and content […]

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4 Podcasts Analytics & Data Advocates Should Listen To

The percentage of Americans who have listened to podcasts in the last month has doubled since 2008 (Pew Research Center).

I may be a newcomer when it comes to podcasts as I’ve only been listening for a little less than a year, but I can without a doubt say that they have helped me grow in my digital marketing career and even my personal life.

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Google Cross Device Tracking and Audio Watermarks

Advertising on the Web is going through some changes because of how smart phones and tablets track visitors on a site, and how advertisements may broadcast high-frequency sounds that may act as audio watermarks that other devices can pick up upon. Imagine watching TV, and your TV broadcasts a high-frequency sound from an advertisement that … Continue reading Google Cross Device Tracking and Audio Watermarks

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Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics!

For the last decade (#omg!), I’ve consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands, rather than engagements matching customer-intent. This leads to owners of digital experiences (insanely) expecting all visitors to their websites to convert right away – anything less than that is a failure. Damn the intent […]

Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik